Part I The Provision of Railway Services

The Central Committee and the consultative committees

79 Annual reports by the Central Committee and the consultative committees.

(1)

Each committee shall, as soon as practicable after the end of the first relevant financial year and of each subsequent financial year—

(a)

make a report to the Regulator on the committee’s activities during that year; and

(b)

in the case of the Central Committee and the consultative committees for Scotland and for Wales, send a copy of that report to the Secretary of State;

and the Secretary of State shall lay before each House of Parliament a copy of the reports sent to him pursuant to paragraph (b) above.

(2)

Each committee may arrange for any report which it makes under subsection (1) above to be published in such manner as the committee considers appropriate.

(3)

In arranging for the publication of any report under this section, a committee shall have regard to the need for excluding, so far as that is practicable, the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 71(2) above, for this purpose taking references in those paragraphs to the Regulator as references to the committee.

(4)

In this section—

“committee” means the Central Committee or a consultative committee;

“financial year” means a period of twelve months ending with 31st March; and

“first relevant financial year”, in relation to a committee, means the financial year in which the committee is established.